{"id":81007,"date":"2026-11-06T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/three-men-charged-in-us-with-using-ai-to-impersonate-ceos-and-steal-millions\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:54:49","slug":"three-men-charged-in-us-with-using-ai-to-impersonate-ceos-and-steal-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/three-men-charged-in-us-with-using-ai-to-impersonate-ceos-and-steal-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men allegedly impersonated voices and images of executives to convince employees to send large payments<\/p>\n<p>Three foreign nationals were arrested and charged with using AI to allegedly impersonate corporate CEOs and attorneys to steal over $100m, according to an indictment that was newly unsealed by the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/three-foreign-nationals-arrested-and-charged-scheme-use-super-intelligence-defraud#ref-ftn1\">press release<\/a> from the United States attorney\u2019s office for the southern district of New York, three men \u2013 Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan, and Guy Sheetrit \u2013 were arrested for using AI to alter and impersonate the voices and images of executives and attorneys at various companies in order to convince employees to send over large payments. Soall and Hazan were arrested in Spain over the summer, while Sheetrit was arrested in the United Kingdom in September. The alleged fraud took place between 2024 and 2026.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/06\/ai-ceo-impersonation-theft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men allegedly impersonated voices and images of executives to convince employees to send large payments Three foreign nationals were arrested and charged with using AI to allegedly impersonate corporate CEOs and attorneys to steal over $100m, according to an indictment that was newly unsealed by the US Department of Justice. According to a press release &#8230; <a title=\"Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/three-men-charged-in-us-with-using-ai-to-impersonate-ceos-and-steal-millions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}